Mindanao Examiner Decentralizing to municipalities in Arab spring countries by Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir Posted By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir | Sunday, July 20, 2014 DECENTRALIZATION – as a way of structuring public administration, in...
Read MorePR Newswire By National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2014 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ — According to new U.S. Government data analyzed by the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC), 2013 was...
Read MoreReports coming out of Morocco and Jordan are both encouraging and frustrating. Both Morocco and Jordan have been beset for months by growing popular demands for political, economic and social reform, after Arab uprisings...
Read MoreLong before the woefully inaccurate term “Arab Spring” had been coined, the king of Morocco, his advisers and their Western enablers began touting the idea that the country would be an exception to the movement. Morocco, they...
Read MoreMorocco has been conspicuously absent from the list of Arab regimes threatened by popular protests during the last seven months. To be sure, there has been organized, sustained activity there, generated by a loose amalgamation...
Read MoreAs Arab rulers go, Mohammed VI, the 48-year-old king of Morocco, seems at times like the region’s most reluctant autocrat. When inheriting power from his repressive father 12 years ago, he refused to move to the royal palace,...
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Click Here to see the letter. Washington – Twelve US congressmen have underlined that the...
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2011 — Praise for Morocco’s commitment to human rights, increased freedom and equality, and participatory democracy WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Secretary of...
Read MoreOne of the less noted aspects of the “Arab Spring” is how secure the region’s monarchies appear to be. But why? They too have their inequalities and their restricted franchises- in the case of Saudi Arabia, no franchise....
Read More(Reuters) – Morocco’s King Mohammed is pushing for early polls to hasten reforms he has initiated but this alone is unlikely to satisfy critics without serious steps to curb corruption and to give the next assembly...
Read More“You’re not filming here, no way,” the woman asserted before calling for the cops to escort me off the premises, which I have to say they did with a lot of tact. I was being thrown out of a polling station for having the...
Read MoreRabat – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI called on Saturday for speedy elections and the reopening of his country’s border with Algeria in his first throne speech since a referendum voted to curb some of his...
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